When you sign up for a financial product through WeLeap — say, a high-yield savings account or a credit card — WeLeap may earn a referral or transaction fee. That's standard across the industry. What isn't standard is what happens next.
You see the fee. A share comes back to you. WeLeap discloses every fee we earn from your actions. Then a portion of that fee is returned to you directly as an individual rebate. You took the action. You should share in the upside — not just the platform.
The rest builds something bigger. The remainder flows into the WeLeap Community Fund. This is a shared pool — not controlled by WeLeap, not a marketing budget. It exists to fund things the community actually wants: financial literacy programs, member rewards, community events, and more. The specifics of how the Fund is used will be shaped by the community as we grow.
Why transparency is the whole point. Most platforms can't be transparent about fees because their entire business model depends on you not knowing. WeLeap's model is different by design: we earn when you succeed with a better product, not when we steer you toward a worse one. Disclosing fees isn't a risk for us — it's the proof that our incentives are aligned with yours.
Governance — coming as we scale. Community input over how the Fund is used is something we're building toward deliberately. We want it to be real, not performative — so we're launching it when the community is large enough for it to matter. Founding Members will have early access when it opens.
This isn't charity. It's a structural shift in who benefits when money moves.